The Teach Truth campaign is an urgent call to support the honest and inclusive education students deserve. Children’s future depends on what they learn today. 

However, across the country, legislatures have passed laws and policies to criminalize teaching honestly about U.S. history and to restrict students’ ability to ask questions and engage in critical thinking. In addition to laws and their chilling effect, learning is narrowed by textbooks and high-stakes testing. This climate of silence leads to an increase in racism, Islamophobia, antisemitism, and homophobia. Black, Indigenous, Latinx, Asian American, Palestinian, and LGBTQ+ writers are being banned in record numbers by the same forces passing laws against voting rights, gun reform, trans rights, climate justice, and more.

In this election year, we need to reach as many people as possible with information about the chilling effect of book bans and anti-CRT laws and how they threaten any chance of an informed and engaged democracy.

Visit D.C. Area Educators for Social Justice at our information tables to learn more about banned books and our Teach Truth campaign! If you would like to volunteer, please contact dcaesj@teachingforchange.org.